Cassettes still rock!

I like the standard Sony Walkman cassette players, I have a bunch. They just plain sound good. Heifetz sounds like Heifetz. No power cords to worry about, or interconnects or fuses or room treatments. No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s dirty looks. I also am quite fond of the vintage Sony Ultralight earphones. How come the Japanese have such good ears?

Hickamore,

Ah yes, I have all my earlier 10,000 Maniacs on cassette: The Wishing Chair, In My Tribe, and Blind Mans Zoo. From that period I also have most of my Cure, REM, Sugar Cubes, Lush, and a couple of Laurie Anderson’s (including her United States Live box set) library on cassette.

Wishing Chair and In My Tribe sound excellent. And I never replaced those on CD, did with Blind Mans Zoo, but I don’t think that album was mastered well on either format, but not too awful bad.

I have a large collection of bootleg cassette tapes and a Nak Dragon to play them on.  

A tape of a live concert directly fed from the mics to the deck, even on a cassette, can be really something.  It's a form of "master" recording, not a copy, like all LP's and almost all RtoR, so they have a quality of "aliveness" that is not there even on "live concert" LP's.  Don't knock it if you haven't tried it. 
   The specs of cassettes are poor, of course, compared to LP's, RtoR or CD/SACD, and they deteriorate with time.  They can still hold some fantastic music. 

Don't knock it if you haven't tried it.

Excellent words of wisdom!

You guys are jogging my memory. Most of my cassettes are of me and my band playing mediocre if enthusiastic rock and roll. Now, if I only had a cassette player to play them on...